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Seasonal Influenza Immunisation Programme for 2009/2010

Seasonal flu occurs every year, usually in the winter. It is a highly infectious disease caused by a virus. Symptoms include fever, chills, headache, aching muscles, cough and sore throat - and because seasonal flu is a virus, antibiotics won't help.
For more information on the flu programme for 2009, see the attachments below.

Seasonal Influenza Immunisation Programme for 2009/2010

Offering poultry workers the seasonal flu vaccination is a precautionary public health measure to reduce the risk of poultry workers contracting both avian and human influenza simultaneously.
This would reduce the theoretical risk for circulating human influenza virus to re-assort with avian influenza virus, thereby producing a new influenza virus which could have pandemic potential.
Seasonal influenza vaccine protects against seasonal human influenza but does not protect against avian influenza or swine flu.

Seasonal Influenza Immunisation Programme for Poultry Workers 2009/2010


Seasonal flu vaccination information and translations


Seasonal flu – protection for health and social care workers


Seasonal flu – protection for carers

A revised chapter on influenza for 2009 is now available at:
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